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BIMP-EAGA

BIMP-EAGA

The Brunei Darussalam–Indonesia–Malaysia–Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area, or BIMP-EAGA, is a cooperation initiative established in 1994 to spur development in remote and less developed areas in the four participating Southeast Asian countries.

Developing the blue economy in Southeast Asia is expected to boost the growth of fisheries, aquaculture, and tourism, and promote investments in emerging sectors, such as renewable energy, biotechnology, and marine and freshwater-based research and education. Photo credit: ADB.
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Southeast Asia Is Building Back Bluer

Southeast Asian countries lay the groundwork for the sustainable use of ocean and coastal resources in the region.
The average size of farms in the Philippines shrank to 0.9 hectare per family as of 2012 from almost 3 hectares in the 1980s. Photo credit: ADB
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Why the Philippines Is Promoting Agriculture Clustering to Boost Farmers’ Income

With farmers and fishers organized as a cluster, like a cooperative, they are expected to have greater access to financing, resources, technologies, and markets.
A chopper transports workers to an offshore rig in Malaysia. Photo credit: iStock/claffra.
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Indonesia, Malaysia Seek to Become Regional Carbon Storage Hubs

Sharing storage infrastructure is expected to make CCUS projects economically and technically feasible in the region.
Indonesia improved the entrepreneurial ecosystem and increased the capacity of enterprises to become more export- and technology-oriented, particularly those owned by women. Photo credit: ADB.
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Structural Reforms Set the Stage for Green and Inclusive Growth in Indonesia

An ADB-backed program is helping the country improve its investment climate to attain high-income status by 2045 and transition to a low-carbon economy.
Offering nonstop services between secondary destinations, such as Cebu−Kota Kinabalu and Makassar−Kota Kinabalu, could boost intra-Southeast Asian passenger traffic and tourism. Photo credit: ADB.
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Air Travel in Southeast Asia Is On the Rise But May Face Turbulence Ahead

An ADB study offers strategies for turning challenges into opportunities.
The Philippine startup ecosystem ranks among the top 20 global ecosystems in terms of affordable talent, according to data from Startup Genome 2022. Photo credit: ADB.
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How the Philippines Is Helping Tech Startups

Two landmark laws enacted in 2019 defined national policy to foster the growth of startups, in turn, spurring the development of the ecosystem.
The ASEAN Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance supports a just transition to a low-carbon growth path. Photo credit: ADB.
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ASEAN Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance Includes Social Safeguards and Coal Phaseouts

Southeast Asia takes the next step toward Paris climate goals with the release of Version 2 of the ASEAN Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance.
Davao City will soon roll out a modern, safe, reliable, and efficient bus transport system that will significantly reduce greenhouse gases. Photo credit: Courtesy of ADB.
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How Davao City Is Making Public Transport More Climate-Friendly

A smart system will deploy low-carbon buses to serve the transport needs of a growing population.
Sustainable agriculture is a way of producing clean, healthy, and nutritious food, while preserving the environment, providing an equitable distribution of economic wealth, and ensuring the health and safety of not just the food produced but also the health and safety of farming communities. Photo credit: ADB.
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To Make Agriculture Sustainable, ASEAN Wants Farming to Be Environment- and People-Friendly

This entails shifting to greener farming practices, adopting the circular economy model, and protecting the well-being of farming communities.
Drone technology can be used in innovative ways to fight climate change, such as monitor forest fires and other environmental changes, plant trees, produce detailed maps of protected areas, and may even provide a low-carbon method of delivering parcels. Photo credit: iStock/Christian Martin.
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Southeast Asia Explores Frontier Technologies in Quest for Carbon Neutrality

Disruptive technologies will reshape industry, healthcare, and communications and provide urgently needed solutions to global challenges like climate change.